 Reiche was a colleague of Santillana at MIT, and himself developed the archaeoastronomical interpretation of ancient myth in a series of lectures and publications similar to "Hamlet's Mill" (dealing more specifically with Greek mythology), including an interpretation of "the layout of Atlantis as a sort of map of the sky".The Swedish astronomer Peter Nilson, while recognizing that "Hamlet's Mill" does not qualify as a work of science, expressed admiration for it as well as it being a source of inspiration when he wrote his own book on classic mythologies based on the night sky