Determined to publicize the humanist point of view in his book on humanism. H. J. Blackham, director of the British Humanist Association states that it. “exists to spread humanists ideas and ideals, to cultivate the understanding and application of them, to defend them and their adherents from misrepresentation and discrimination, …show more content…
This creativity however could only come into being if it was nurtured and developed. (Bullock. 1985 p35) Humanists promoted the notion that people could only reach their full potential through education. This belief evokes the values and methods of humanism as one of the key elements in the history of education.
The feudal mind may view the past through the perception of the present as the Renaissance Humanism were persistent on seeing the past as a sequence of distant cultures; different from one another and from the present point from which they are observed. Feudal scholasticism had then relied on an arrangements of belief that gave meaning to ideas and events by arranging them in similarities to other events and ideas whilst humanists tended to construe events and ideas through individual perspectives and …show more content…
This includes a simple wood-cut duplicates of various T-O and zonal world maps and engraved copies of Ptolemy’s world and sectional maps from Italy and Germany. The earliest printed Ptolemaic atlas beheld twenty-six maps printed from engraved copper plates, published in Bologna in 1477. Maps created from woodcuts were generally popular than engraved metal plates in the first years of European map printing, although gradually copper engraving surpassed woodcut and remained the desired technique until the 19th Century. Wood-block printing was abandoned in preference of copper-plated