Robert Boyle Robert Boyle Robert Boyle (; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. Among his works, "The Sceptical Chymist" is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry. He
The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker (title in Russian "Мельник – колдун, обманщик и сват [Melnik – koldun, obmanshchik i svat]") – is a Russian ballad opera in three acts with a libretto by Alexander Ablesimov that premiered on . Its folksong-based music was long attributed to Yevstigney Fomin but is now considered to have been by Mikhail Sokolovsky, and others have contributed music to revivals. The music for the opera is nowadays agreed to be by Mikhail Sokolovsky, although for a century it