1 Early life
2 Career as a scientist
2.1 Galileo, Kepler and theories of tides
2.2 Controversy over comets and The Assayer
2.3 Controversy over heliocentrism
3 Death
4 Scientific methods
5 Astronomy
5.1 Kepler's supernova
5.2 Jupiter
5.3 Venus, Saturn, and Neptune
5.4 Sunspots
5.5 Moon
5.6 Milky Way and stars
6 Engineering
7 Physics
7.1 Falling bodies
8 Mathematics
9 His writings
9.1 Summary of Galileo's published written works
10 Legacy
10.1 Church reassessments of Galileo in later centuries
10.2 Impact on modern science
10.3 In artistic and popular media
11 Timeline
12 See also
13 Notes
14 References
15 External links
15.1 By Galileo
15.2 On Galileo
15.2.1 Biography
15.2.2 Galileo and the Church