Leguina 1891 presents this Madrid 1672 work by Luis Pacheco de Narvaez as a posthumous publication financed by Manuel de Sossa, rejects the supposed 1632 edition, and notes that the manuscript basis was already in existence by 1625.
Vigeant 1882 records the Madrid 1672 Nueva ciencia as an octavo printed by Melchor Sanchez at the expense of Manuel de Sossa, with preface, sonnets, approbation, and licence. He suggests the author was likely the son of the earlier Narvaez and says the treatise is enriched with extracts and named citations.