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?
Tag Archives: porphyrins
Here’s what Alan D. Adler could (should?) have done to investigate the porphyrins of those anomalous Shroud bloodstains.
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
Yet more ‘Fanti-sy’ from Fanti, Faccini et al, this time on the spear so-called “wound”…
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 crucifixion, faccini, Fanti, haemoglobin, medicinal leech, porphyrins, Shroud of Turin, Shroud Scope, spear wound, unscientific claims
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Did blood-sucking leeches help to establish – at least in some eyes – the ‘authenticity’ of the Shroud of Turin?
It began as a posting on a forger’s modus operandi – my posting earlier this morning. Not your ordinary forger, I hasten to add, but probably a monk or similar. He no doubt thought he was acting from the best … Continue reading
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Tagged (red blood cells), Adler, anti-coagulants, authenticity, bloodstains, bloodsucking, coagulation, digestion, forger, globins, haemoglobin, leeches, porphyrins, serum, Shroud of Turin
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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 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. 