We are used to seeing things as censorship taught us. And when we find any map that has escaped inquisitorial control, as in Teixeira or in Sebastião Lopes, we say that it is strange or that its flags do not add up. This is normal and true. It doesn't fit what we've been told. But this does not mean that it is false. Quite the opposite.
The citizens of the Empire, between the seventeenth and eighth centuries, had to endure what all the experts of the world agree to consider the worst Inquisition in the history of the West. And if these censors were burned and torturen thousands of people, they were also burned and manipulated books and documents throughout the Empire, always in accordance with the interests of their leaders. What a doubt there can be.
To think càndidly that this did not happen during these three centuries long, still makes academicism, is an arrogant naive. Don't start reviewing the whole story considering the big variable 'censorship' is too serious a typo. To think that during this time he was not touching or comma, or translating any work, nor will he alter any biography or family tree or map or coat of arms or flag, or chronology, or made disappear or misrepresent any kingdom or lineage is to be very naive. They want to live deceived forever. And so acts the academy and many scholars today. When they see something that does not fit, they look the other way and hide.
These vertical, horizontal and diagonal Royal Catalan shields that Teixeira paints on his maps and that are located in northern Europe, in the area of present-day Russia, North Africa, North America and South America, are an oversight of the censors. Enric Guillot has found many of these descuits from which to begin to reconstruct the true story. Both are maps that have been protected in kingdoms that do not belong to the Empire, outside of access to censorship. And present a rather different world, which we do not block. Therefore, we really have no idea what the West should look like before the imperial inquisitorial censorship manipulates their documentation.