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Orson Scott Card once noted, ``Magic has trees, science has rivets.'' --- but that's a bit simplistic.
I really like the series where there's an effort to codify magic and make it understandable / consistent (arguably it should _not_ be rational), but an interesting subset of such is books where what seems to be magic has a technological base --- Jack Chalker's _Spirits of Flux and Anchor_ for example, or Steven Brust's Dragaera books (where Sorcery uses the energy of a sea of chaos and psionics as a capability was bred into test subjects half a million years ago).
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