Susanna Kristina Åkerman (b. Stockholm 1959), Ph.D. (1988) in Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis after studies at the Universities of Stockholm (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) and Köln. She is presently a Research Assistant at Uppsala University, working on a project Swedish-Baltic Immaterialism 1622-1688.

'...advances new insights and fresh interpretations...It may very well remain the "final word" on this complex issue...'K.Smemo, Choice, 1992.‘...éclaire singulièrement le portrait considéré jusque là comme incohérent de la Reine de Suède, formant une très intéressante contribution sur la XVIIe siècle...'Alain Touwaide, Scriptorium, 1992.'This book is a mine of information, a challenge to anyone who tries to reconstruct the philosophy of the past in the image of the present.'Sarah Hutton, Br. Jrnl. for the History of Philosophy, 1993.'...monumental study...Åkerman's clear-headed and thoroughly researched account throws light on virtually everything she duscusses...'Metascience, 1992.'...anyone will appreciate the careful research that informs this complex, densely woven narrative.'Paula Findlen, The Sixteenth Century Journal, 1992.'...brings together with learned enthusiasm a great deal of relevant or circumstantial information about this bibliophile queen.'John Stoye, Notes and Queries, 1993.'...an exciting and well argued interpretation of the intellectual life and political ambitions of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine...'Bruce T. Moran, Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, 1993.