 It was referenced in a 1977 study of Mexican literature, but was not commented on or published until 1994.An extensive study of Rivas and his lunar narrative was published in 1995 by Delgado, who published a complete, critical edition of the text in 2001.Rivas was evidently influenced by European narratives of lunar exploration, including Lucian's "True History", Sir Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis", Johannes Kepler's "Somnium", Francis Godwin's "The Man in the Moone", John Wilkins' "Discovery of a New World", Cyrano de Bergerac's "The Voyage to the Moon", Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle's "Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds", and Voltaire's "Micromégas".