Engraving of a flea in Micrographia, 1665
A signature early microscopy image chosen to test plate-level rights divergence: the underlying book is Public Domain Mark, while this separately catalogued digital image is CC BY 4.0.
Plate Archive
Scientific Plate Archive
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Child routes are taken from ASEU’s canonical route registry. Indexing status remains route-specific.
Zodiac man: planetary correspondences with the human body
An intentionally difficult knowledge-history seed: a historical astrological body diagram retained as evidence and explicitly separated from modern astronomical science.
Northern celestial planisphere
A color-enhanced celestial map used to test astronomy, multilingual inscriptions, collaborative roles and hand-coloring metadata.
Crystallography: Theory of crystallization, Plate I
A geometry-heavy scientific plate selected to test diagram-oriented discovery and future comparison tooling.
Ideal section of a portion of the Earth’s crust
A deliberate rights-uncertain seed. Metadata is useful and verified, but media reuse remains blocked because an item-specific license was not established.
Cheiranthus fenestralis: flowering plant
A mixed-process botanical seed demonstrating line engraving, etching and watercolor in one object.
Vincetoxicum officinale / Asclepias: flowering plant, fruit and seed
A taxonomic-reconciliation seed: historical names remain visible while Kew’s current accepted-name relationship is stored separately.
Different Kinds of Flowers Drawn and Engraved from Nature, Plate 13
A Smithsonian CC0 seed testing explicit open-access media and a non-taxonomic botanical/design object.
The White-Headed Eagle
A name-history seed linking Catesby’s historical eagle naming to current Catalogue of Life/GBIF synonymy.
Southern magnolia
A creator-role seed where BHL research explicitly distinguishes Ehret’s own watercolor and etching contribution within Catesby’s larger authored work.
Illustration of insect metamorphosis
A science-observation seed emphasizing life-cycle depiction and host-plant context; historical context is kept distinct from later taxonomic identification.
Natural-history plate from Seba’s Thesaurus, 1735
An intentional unresolved-identification seed proving ASEU can publish verified source/provenance while withholding speculative subject identification.
Semaeostomeae jellyfish: Desmonema annasethe
A late-19th/early-20th-century lithographic seed selected for marine zoology, highly stylized scientific visualization and explicit artist-to-printer production relationships.
The Celestial Globe—Southern Hemisphere
A 1515 southern-sky woodcut used to extend ASEU into the 16th century and into relief printing while preserving the museum’s explicit Public Domain status.
Title Page and Dedication for the Compendiosa totius Anatomiae delineatio
An early English engraving example that connects anatomical publishing, engraving technology, and Vesalian source material without inventing a stronger creator relationship than the Met records.
A Survey of the Microcosme
A layered anatomical flap-print work that broadens ASEU’s anatomy and publishing coverage while keeping movable-flap context in editorial metadata rather than fabricating interactions.
Full Moon
A telescope-informed lunar engraving that strengthens ASEU’s astronomy track and observation-to-print relationships.
Plate for the Atlas Anatomico (unpublished)
An anatomical etching designed from late-17th-century research and printed in 1740; ASEU preserves the source’s date range instead of collapsing design and print dates.
Plate IV, from Choix de Coquillages et de Crustacés
A large hand-colored natural-history engraving expanding ASEU’s marine zoology and color-application coverage.
Anatomische studie van de hersenen
A brain and spinal anatomy book illustration used to test shared-work identity without merging distinct plates from the same publication.
Anatomische studie van het hart
A heart-dissection plate from the same 1685 Bidloo publication as the brain plate; ASEU keeps shared-work membership separate from plate identity.
Anatomische les
A title-page anatomical lesson combining etching and engraving, extending maker and technique relationships in the reviewed corpus.
Anatomische afbeelding, Tab. VII
A 1785 anatomical etching from Bleuland’s publication; the depicted subject stays general because the selected object page does not identify a more specific structure.
Natuurkunde in de Maatschappij Felix Meritis, 1789
A physical-science allegory containing an electrical machine and other instruments, giving ASEU its first reviewed electricity/instrumentation plate.
Trust boundary
What this page does not invent.
ASEU keeps historical claims, current scientific reconciliation, rights status, creator roles, provenance, image descent and editorial interpretation separate when the sources require them to stay separate.
R000067 is a parent integration, not a new ASEU research stage. It materializes the current canonical route and parent-participation contracts without declaring ASEU040 complete or expanding the source corpus.