Thanks for all of your helpful suggestions,
most of which I've tried to take on board.

Hopefully it's better, not sure it's finished :-)

there's a bigger rendition, 1280x960, at
http://thyme.homelinux.net/Orrery.jpg

The oil painting is by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1766,
"A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery"

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I would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those pesky kids!

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