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It's my crux: I find myself criticizing over and over the way that scientific articles look today. I have said many times that \href{https://twitter.com/albertopepe/status/256470400777728000/photo/1}{scientists today write 21th-century research using 20th-century tools packaged in a 17th-century format}. When I give talks, I often use 400-year-old-articles to demonstrate that they
do not look
very much different from and feel similar to the articles we publish today. Bus the scientific article of the 1600s looked that way for a reason. In a forthcoming PLoS Computational Biology paper, now "in press", \citet{ploscomp} note:
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In the early 1600s, Galileo Galilei turned a telescope toward Jupiter. In his log book each night, he drew to-scale schematic diagrams of Jupiter and some oddly-moving points of light near it. Galileo labeled each drawing with the date. Eventually he used his observations to conclude that the Earth orbits the Sun, just as the four Galilean moons orbit 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 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). Critically, when Galileo included the information from those notes in Siderius Nuncius, this integration of text, data and metadata was preserved: