Leo Ferrari

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| name = Leo Charles Ferrari

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| birth_date = December 8, 1927

| birth_place = Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|10|07|1927|12|08}}

| death_place = Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

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University of Sydney (B.Sc) 1948
Laval University (Ph.D) 1957

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| occupation = Philosophy professor

| years_active = 1961–1995

| employer = St. Thomas University

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| title = Professor emeritus

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Leo Charles Ferrari (December 8, 1927 – October 7, 2010) was a St. Thomas University philosophy professor, noted Saint Augustine scholar, and founding member of the organization Flat Earth Society of Canada.

Flat Earth Society activities

Leo Ferrari was a founding member and head of the Flat Earth Society of Canada, later renamed the Flat Earth Society (FES).

{{cite book|last=Fraser|first=Raymond|title=When the Earth was flat

|url=https://archive.org/details/whenearthwasflat0000fras|url-access=registration|date=2007

|publisher=Black Moss Press

|location=Windsor, Ontario, Canada

|isbn=9780887534393

|oclc=153913670

|pages=[https://archive.org/details/whenearthwasflat0000fras/page/15 15–23]}}

In Ferrari's writings in support of the FES and the Flat Earth, he attributed everything from gender to racial inequality on the globularist and the Spherical Earth model.http://mje.mcgill.ca/article/download/7006/4948 {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}} Ferrari even claimed to have nearly fallen off "the Edge" of the Earth at Brimstone Head on Fogo Island.{{cite book|last=Colombo|first=John R|title=Canadian Literary Landmarks|date=1984|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-0888820730|page=19}}

Ferrari was a key figure in the 1990 flat earth "documentary", In Search of the Edge. In the accompanying study guide, Ferrari is outed as a "globularist," someone who believes the earth is spherical. The intent of the film was to promote critical thinking about media by "[attempting] to prove in convincing fashion, something everyone knew to be false."

Bibliography

{{cite book

|title=The conversions of Saint Augustine

|date=1984

|publisher=Villanova University Press

|location=Villanova, Pennsylvania

|isbn=9780877230397

|oclc=17228498}}

{{cite book

|title=Different Minds/ Living with Alzheimer Disease

|date=2005

|others=(with Lorna Drew)

|publisher=Villanova University Press

|location=Villanova, Pennsylvania

|isbn=9780864924438

|oclc=17228498}}

; Published Essays

{{cite journal|last=Ferrari|first=Leo|title=Feminism and Education in a Flat Earth Perspective|journal=McGill Journal of Education|date=1975|volume=X|issue=1|pages=77–81|url=http://mje.mcgill.ca/index.php/MJE/article/download/7006/4948|accessdate=17 March 2013}}

; Human Rights Pamphlets

The rise of human rights; a Canadian outline. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Human Rights Commission, Dept. of Labour, 1970. {{OCLC|107688}}
Human rights and the Canadian Indian. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Human Rights Commission, Dept. of Labour, 1973. {{OCLC|3570417}}
Human rights in a changing world : the problem of preserving human values in the upheavals caused by science and technology. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Human Rights Commission, Dept. of Labour, 1977. {{OCLC|3968828}}

; Poetry

The worm's revenge. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Mortuary Press, 1968. {{OCLC|18945843}}
Over the Edge: Poems in Grateful Celebration of Fifty Years of Life, Love and of Laughter. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Owl and the Pussycat, 1977. {{OCLC|5488675}}

References

{{Reflist|refs={{cite web|title=Leo Ferrari: obituary and death notice on InMemoriam|url=http://www.inmemoriam.ca/view-announcement-207507-leo-ferrari.html|accessdate=16 March 2013}}{{cite web|title=Biographical sketch|url=http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/ferrari/intro.html|work=Leo C. Ferrari Fonds|publisher=UNB Archives and Special Collections|accessdate=16 March 2013}}{{cite encyclopedia|title=Leo Charles Ferrari|url=http://w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/nble/f/ferrari_leo_charles.html|encyclopedia=New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia|publisher=St. Thomas University|accessdate=16 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202160147/http://w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/nble/f/ferrari_leo_charles.html|archive-date=2 February 2014|url-status=dead}}

{{cite AV media

| people = Barrie, Scott (Director); Marsh, Robert (Narrator)

| date = 2005

| title = In search of the edge : an inquiry into the shape of the earth and the disappearance of Andrea Barns

| medium = DVD

| url = http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/search.html

| publisher = Pancake Productions

| location = Toronto, Ontario

| isbn = 9781594582295

| oclc = 81094526

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{{cite AV media notes