The Clementine Atlas of the Moon

Ben Bussey and Paul Spudis' Clemintine Atlas of the Moon features a collected collation of Apollo survey material proctored from photographs made by the Moon Rover. Surveying in this manner is done by applying the abstract geometry of Euclid to the planetary body on the basis of size and axial orientation. The rationality of it is between geometry and the globe. Going further into astronomy is a matter of, after having mapped your surface, applying the rational trigonometry of Pythagoras from the surface of the globe to the celestial sphere, so that after you have mapped the night sky, you have two ratios of sphere dimensions to feature's specific locations. This is how it comes to be that astronomy is a proportional science, there are two ratios of mapped terrain to the uniform geometry. The intermediate term, the practice of applying reason to this problem, is in the use of triangulation.

The pictures in the Clementine Atlas are also aesthetic in their own right.