Copernicus placed the Sun at the centre of the Universe, exempt from any sort of lation.

My friend was obliged positively to force me to enter a booth, and, after the precious shivin (a kind of tea) was poured out, wishing to profit by the ecstatic feeling in which he found me, he asked me, chucklingly, “Now, then, what do you say to Bokhara Sherif (the noble)?” “It pleases me much,” I replied; and the Central Asiatic, although from Khokand, and an alien enemy, as his nation was at that moment at war with Bokhara, was nevertheless delighted to find that the capital of Turkestan had made such a conquest of me, and gave me his word that he would show me its finest features in the course of the following days.

[…] — a ferret, for example, with its fierce eyes plucked from the reefs of coral seas, and its affinity, albeit a landish affinity, with the bears of the polar spaces.

... it is customary after the bargain is made for the purchaser to send a P.O.O. for the amount before the birds are sent off.