Isabel Piczek,
artist specializing in human anatomy.
5'11½"
- 6'1"
Fanti, Marinelli, Cagnazzo (tibio-femoral
indices calculations)
5'8" - 5'9"
Luigi Gedda (sagittal plane of face applied to
anthropometric ratio)
6'0"
Picknett and
Prince (corrected for logical fallacy)
5'9" - 6'1"
Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince in their book, Turin Shroud - In Whose
Image, wrote:
Our calculations put the height of the man on the Shroud - at the front - at
203cm...Put in imperial measurements we calculate that the front image is
6ft 8in and the back 6ft 10in.
They arrived at this height by assuming that the head height to
body height ratio on the shroud was 1 to 9 rather than the average 1 to 8.
So they multiplied their height of the head measurement by nine. The
problem:
This is profoundly illogical. Without knowing the height of the body first, how
can one arrive at a ratio?
It is very difficult to measure the height of the head. We don't know the angle
of the head, how collimated it is to the image plane or how distorted it may
be (in a Mercator projection concept).
Nonetheless, using Picknett and Prince's estimate for the head and correcting it to the 1 to
8 ratio (which is admittedly only an average) the height of the man on the
shroud is 6 ft 0 in.
