LTAnalizuojamas iki šiol netyrinėtas reikšmingas Lietuvos mokslo raidos fragmentas bei jo filisofinis įprasminimas naujųjų amžių gamtotyros bei ją lydėjusios natūrfilosofijos plitimo laikotarpiu - nuo XVIII a. vidurio iki Edukacinės komisijos reformų. Atskleidžiama naujosios gamtotyros ir tuometinės natūrfilosofijos sąveika, analizuojama kaip tuometiniame Europos moksle susiklosčiusios pažiūros palaikė natūrfilosofijos tradicinį paveldą.
ENThis article is a research into the problems of natural sciences and natural philosophy in Vilnius University as well as in the other Lithuanian schools in the second half of the 18th century. The new achievements of contemporary natural sciences and natural philosophy were taught. The level of the course of physics was as high as in the outstanding European schools. The problems of natural sciences at the time of the beginning of the crisis of the mechanical world outlook were explained. The formation of the historical view on nature was not capable of the historical explanation of the organic world. They used the cataclysms as the moans of explaning the history and geological processes of the earth. The natural and supernatural factors in this explanation were combined.