Image of my own (beardless!) face, obtained in 2015 via contact imprinting technique, easily realizable in medieval times.
Pre-imprinting! (purely a modern photo as distinct from medieval -type imprint!)
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Conflicting definitions of “sindonology”
1. First, from en.wiktionary
“The study of the Shroud of Turin from a believing perspective”
2. Second, from www.dictionary.
“The scientific study of the Shroud of Turin”
Er, they can’t both be right! Indeed they could be said to be pulling in opposite directions!
So why hasn’t sindonology put its house in order by agreeing on a SINGLE DEFINITION?
Monthly Archives: June 2012
My checklist of key criteria that need to be reproduced in modelling the Shroud image mechanism – and the extent to which thermal imprinting (“scorching by direct contact”) could be claimed to meet those criteria
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
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Tagged Enigma Challenge, essential criteria, f, modelling, reproduction, scorching, Shroud of Turin, thermal imprinting, turin shroud
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Seven short and simple answers to the Shroud of Turin Enigma Challenge – and a plea for the reporting of real science…
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, cloth-body distance, David Rolfe, Enigma Challenge, hemicelluloses, Richard Dawkins, scorch, turin shroud, Valencia
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Shroud of Turin: one man’s scrutiny and interpretation of what he calls “clack” (i.e. dribbles of reddish-brown pigment) in real time
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
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Tagged authentic, blood stains, cack forgery, scientific research, Shroud Scope, turin shroud
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The Turin Shroud: Spotlight on a particular ?-mark stain. Some call it blood; I call it CLACK…
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
Shroud Scope 10: my very own gallery of 20 close-up views of the Shroud – all lightly photo-edited for optimised colour-differentiation
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
Shroud Scope 9: how simple photo-editing may help resolve controversial issues regarding the blood and body images
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
Reply – in small considered instalments – to Thibault Heimburger re my “Sorry Mr.Rogers” posting
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
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Tagged blood, furrows, Raymond Rogers, ribs, Shroud of Turin, Thibault Heimburger, turin shroud, weave
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Shroud Scope 8: 372 impossible scourge marks (surely?) on the Shroud of Turin
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
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Tagged blood, dumbbell, faccini, Fanti, fudge, image, l, lead spheres, Roman flagrum. lesions, scourge marks, Shroud of Turin
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Shroud Scope 7: Why call it blood if one’s not sure it is blood? A sceptic’s dilemma
I am presently drafting my next post. Its focus is chiefly on the scourge marks on the Turin Shroud. But it’s not entirely certain as to what is imaged when references are made to those scourge marks. Some say they … Continue reading
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Tagged AROW-blood, blood, iron, nail wound, plum-coloured regions, porphyrins, sceptic, scourge marks, Shroud of Turin, Shroud Scope, sodium, tree diagram, wrist
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My answer to the steeped-in-mystique Turin Shroud - evolving gradually from some 10 years of science-based experimental modelling. 