There are places in this universe that are very different from the planet you and I inhabit. Take, for example, the planet Bower in NGC 5194 (the Whirlpool Galaxy). The rotational axis of Bower has such extreme precession that every point of the planet receives roughly equal amounts of sunlight over the course of a standard week. (Note that standard weeks have to be used because day lengths vary considerably from day to day on Bower.) Due to the average insolation and the lack of a Coriolis effect, the whole planet is a temperate rainforest that doesn't experience any seasonal variations.
Because the sun rises at a different point every morning and sets at a different point every evening, it took longer for astronomy to develop as a science on Bower. Bower also has no moons. Consequently, when most other civilizations were escaping their gravity wells, the Bowerites were just starting to realize that they could describe the motions of their planet mathematically.
These illustrations were drawn using Stable Diffusion SDXL.
