Name Leo Ferrari Education Laval University | Years active 1961–1995 Employer St. Thomas University Spouse(s) Lorna E. Drew | |
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Born December 8, 1927 Bathurst, New South Wales Australia Title First Professor emeritus of St. Thomas University "Duke of Sydney" "Archbishop of Canterbury" Parents Leo Francis Ferrari, Millicent Josephine Muller | ||
Cause of death Alzheimer's disease | ||
Leo Ferrari, Fredericton philosopher, dies
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.
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Flat Earth Society activities
Leo Ferrari was a founding member and head of the satirical Flat Earth Society of Canada, later renamed the Flat Earth Society (FES).
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. Ferrari even claimed to have nearly fallen off "the Edge" of the Earth at Brimstone Head on Fogo Island.
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."