![]() Pierandrea Malfi holds a master’s degree with honors in mechanical engineering from the University of Padua. He has authored 8 books and more than 50 scientific works on the Shroud. Fanti has published more than 170 scientific works in international journals. He was responsible for a university research project concerning the most important relic of Christianity and for more than 10 years has headed the Shroud Science Group, a group of about 140 scientists dedicated to study of the relic. After gaining experience in spatial structures, and also in tethered satellites and image analysis, he has directed since 1997 his interest to the Shroud to fill some gaps, especially with reference to the body image impressed on it, which is still scientifically inexplicable. Giulio Fanti is associate professor of mechanical and thermal measurements at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padua, Italy. It is unique in its genre and a very useful tool for those who want to study the subject deeply. This book is, therefore, very important with respect to the Turin Shroud. A numismatic analysis performed on Byzantine gold coins confirms this result. The most important of them is the following: The result of the 1988 radiocarbon dating is statistically wrong and other three new dating methods demonstrate that the Shroud has an age compatible with the epoch in which Jesus Christ lived in Palestine. Many books on the theme have been already published, but none of them contains such a quantity of scientific news and reports. It summarizes the results in a simple manner for the reader to comprehend easily. This book not only addresses these issues in a scientific and objective manner but also leads the reader through new search paths. Scientific studies on the relic until today fail to provide conclusive answers about the identity of the enveloped man and the dynamics regarding the image formation impressed therein. Many papers on it have recently appeared in important scientific journals. The Turin Shroud is the most important and studied relic in the world. Siefker, The Turin Shroud Center of Colorado, USA It is an outstanding contribution to Shroud studies." Robert W. " Overall this volume will be a valuable resource book for the general public as well as for Shroud scholars for many years to come. ![]() Other topics touched on in the book include Shroud history, medical forensics related to the suffering of the Man of the Shroud, detailed image characteristics, and image formation hypotheses. A detailed critique of the 1988 carbon dating effort is also included that gives the authors’ analysis of why and how the effort failed to correctly ascertain the true age of the Shroud. Even more important are chapters that cover alternative dating methods for ancient linen that appear to strongly support a first century provenance for the Shroud linen. The book includes an intriguing chapter on a numismatic investigation that strongly supports the conclusion that the Shroud existed as an archetype for coins minted in the seventh century AD, well before the 1988 carbon dating that declared the Shroud linen cloth dated from 1260 to 1390. It is being published at the time of the 2015 public exhibition of the Shroud in Turin, Italy, and it is unique in the depth of material covered that supports dating the Shroud progressively back to the first century. ![]() This is one of the books John may have had in mind for publication after hundreds of man-years of collective research even two thousand years after the death of Jesus. " This passage from the Gospel of John comes to mind in endeavoring to provide a brief review of the new, large, technical and detailed work on the Shroud of Turin by Professor Giulio Fanti, from the University of Padua, written with the assistance of Pierandrea Malfi. But there are also many other things that Jesus did if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. (John 21:24-25)
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