Science in Fantasy - Recorded

Every universe, real or imagined, is held together by laws of nature. Let's call them, oh, scientific principles. Then there's the supernatural. Suppose your story is in a world, and it’s a magical world. Mustn't it still have its own scientific principles, many of them identical to ours? Maybe with exceptions like, "Gravity until a witch sails a cow onto your hat"? And even magic can have its own (super)natural laws. How might Magicalworldians explore their universe, make scientific discoveries, and formulate scientific laws? Will they inevitably recapitulate our own trip from superstition to totes scientifically based theory of everything?

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