Rachel Laudan. From Mineralogy to Geology: The Foundations of a Science, 1650–1830. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1987, xii + 278 pp., $27.50 (cloth)

Philosophy of Science 57 (2):340-342 (1990)
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