| 词条 | Leo Ferrari |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Leo Charles Ferrari | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = December 8, 1927 | birth_place = Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia[1][2] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|10|07|1927|12|08}} | death_place = Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada[2] | body_discovered = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = | nationality = | other_names = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education ={{Plainlist |
}} | alma_mater = | occupation = Philosophy professor | years_active = 1961–1995 | employer = St. Thomas University | organization = | agent = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | influences = | influenced = | home_town = | television = | title ={{Plainlist}} | term = | boards = | religion = | denomination = | spouse = Lorna E. Drew[1] | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | footnotes = | box_width = }}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 parody organization Flat Earth Society of Canada.[1][2] Flat Earth Society activitiesLeo Ferrari was a founding member and head of the satirical Flat Earth Society of Canada, later renamed the Flat Earth Society (FES).[1] 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.[2] Ferrari even claimed to have nearly fallen off "the Edge" of the Earth at Brimstone Head on Fogo Island.[3] Ferrari was a key figure in the 1990 flat earth "documentary", In Search of the Edge.[14] In the accompanying study guide, Ferrari is outed as a "globularist," someone who believes the earth is spherical.[15] 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."[15] Bibliography
|title=The conversions of Saint Augustine |date=1984 |publisher=Villanova University Press |location=Villanova, Pennsylvania |isbn=9780877230397 |oclc=17228498}}
|title=Different Minds/ Living with Alzheimer Disease |date=2005 |others=(with Lorna Drew) |publisher=Villanova University Press |location=Villanova, Pennsylvania |isbn=9780864924438 |oclc=17228498}}
References1. ^{{cite book|last=Fraser|first=Raymond|title=When the Earth was flat |date=2007 |publisher=Black Moss Press |location=Windsor, Ontario, Canada |isbn=9780887534393 |oclc=153913670 |pages=15–23}} [4][5][6][7]2. ^http://mje.mcgill.ca/article/download/7006/4948 3. ^{{cite book|last=Colombo|first=John R|title=Canadian Literary Landmarks|date=1984|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-0888820730|page=19}} 4. ^1 2 3 {{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}} 5. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|title=Leo Charles Ferrari|url=http://w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/nble/f/ferrari_leo_charles.html|work=New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia|publisher=St. Thomas University|accessdate=16 March 2013}} 6. ^1 {{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 |trans-title=| medium = DVD | language = | url = http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/search.html | accessdate = | archiveurl = | archivedate = | time = | publisher = Pancake Productions | location = Toronto, Ontario | isbn = 9781594582295 | oclc = 81094526}} 7. ^1 2 {{cite DVD notes| title = In search of the edge : an inquiry into the shape of the earth and the disappearance of Andrea Barns| titlelink =| origyear =| others = Barrie, Scott| type = (Study Guide)| url = http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/guides/searchguide.pdf| publisher = Pancake Productions| location = Toronto, Ontario| id =| date = 2005| language =}} }} External links
5 : 1927 births|2010 deaths|Australian emigrants to Canada|People from Fredericton|Deaths from Alzheimer's disease |
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