![]() ![]() Included such well-known figures as writer Farley Mowat, television personality Paul Soles,Īmerican novelist Lawrence Block, and poet Elizabeth Brewster. University administrators, academics, lawyers, physicians, scientists, poets, and writers. Generally, planoterrestrialists were drawn from among the well-educated - computer scientists, The same year the name of the organization was simplified to The FlatĮarth Society to reflect its growing international appeal. Review of the Sciences (May 1973) resulted in an influx of requests for membership, primarilyįrom the United States. The publication of William Johnson's article about the organization in Saturday Radio programmes such as This Country in the Morning, Spectroscope, Take 30, W5, and Front ![]() They wrote articles, gave newspaper interviews, and appeared on television and Lectures and meetings of the Learned Societies of Canada.įerrari and Nowlan also promoted the society's aims more widely through television, radio, and (later an official organ, The Official Organ), and distributed promotional literature at public To boost membership and advance the cause of planoterrestrialism, theĮxecutive issued tractates (two by Nowlan), published a newsletter called The Official Chronicle Raymond Fraser, writer Alden Nowlan, writer-educator Alphonsus J. Other members of the executive included poet-novelist The society's long-serving president and primary promoter was Leo Ferrari, a philosophy "The earth is flat any fool can see that" was adopted as the society's principal motto. Perceptions", and "to spearhead man's escape from his metaphysical and geometrical prison." The fallacious deification of the circle," "to restore man's confidence in the validity of his own The organization, therefore, set as its primary aims: "to combat ![]() Society chose to dispute one thing that "scientific Western civilization" considers indisputable. "on blind faith and to reject the evidence of their own senses." To promote critical thinking, the Prevailing problem of the new technological age was the willingness of people to accept theories On 8 November 1970 by Leo Ferrari, Raymond Fraser, and Alden Nowlan. Records and photographs: 3 b&w and 1 colour 15.5 x 20 cm or smallerĪdministrative history: The Flat Earth Society of Canada was organized at Fredericton, N.B. UNB Archives and Special Collections-Leo C. ![]()
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