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Jupiter. History shows Galileo to be much more than an astronomical hero,  though. His clear and careful record keeping and publication style not  only let Galileo understand the Solar System, it continues to let _anyone_  understand *how* Galileo did it. Galileo’s notes, and _and_  the published version of publication resulting from  them, directly integrated his **data** (drawings of Jupiter and its moons), key **metadata** (timing of each observation, weather, telescope  properties), and **text** (descriptions of methods, analysis, and conclusions), as shown in Figure 1, excerpted from a passage about Jupiter Galileo's book _Siderius Nuncius_ \cite{galilei}. Galileo's work advanced the "Scientific Revolution," and his approach to observation and analysis contributed significantly to the shaping of today's modern "Scientific Method" \cite{galilei1618assayer,galilei1957discoveries}.