After the introduction of Bošković’s way of Newtonian physics in Ljubljana and Graz the
local professors there were among the greatest promoters of Bošković’s views in their physics and
mathematics lectures. Ljubljana professor Biwald played very important role with his textbooks
of Bošković’s physics after he left Ljubljana for Graz. The Ljubljana professors also promoted
the new ideas in Slovenian lands and even connected them with Asclepi, Bošković’s successor at
Roman College, although Bošković personally disliked him. The future philosopher Karpe was
among the best Pogrietschnig’s Ljubljana students and he used Asclepi’s book for his graduate
work. Karpe was trained in Bošković physics as a young man and kept his sympathy for Bošković’s
world view all his life. Karpe’s connection with Bošković and his followers was the base for his
later criticism of Kant’s philosophy. Bošković was extremely popular among the Mid-European
Jesuits, and his fame did not fade after 1773 when the young Jesuit students Karpe and Jurij Vega
became the professors of their own because they still preferred Bošković’s ideas.
The only Ljubljana Jesuit professor of physics of the strongest Carniolian noble family
Auersperg, Herbert, also supported new Bošković’s ideas and later made an extraordinary success
as Carniolan church official. The development of Ljubljana Jesuit physics and astronomy did not suffer much after the suppression of the Jesuit order because just Jesuit theology professors lost
their positions, but the Jesuits occupied the chairs connected with the mathematical sciences for
next three decades in Ljubljana. The suppression of the Jesuit order obstructed the development
of Bošković’s ideas but in no way removed them from the scientific scene. The Bošković’s followers
were able to develop a strong Mid-European school supporting Bošković which kept its
great influence even in 19th century and paved the way for the modern use of Bošković’s ideas
in quantum mechanics.