Goofs And Great Inventions In Lost Cities, Lost Treasure

Mistakes are key to making discoveries. Some of the mistakes may not be worth what was discovered but no matter how you look at it, you can’t make a mistake and not make a discovery. You can’t make a discovery without making a mistake. The “Goofs and Great Inventions” passage set proves this in each of the passages.

In Lost Cities, Lost Treasure, Heinrich Schliemann was a trickster and a greedy man, but he still loved adventures and discovery. Frank Calvert did not have enough money to dig and discover in the part of Turkey that he owned and asked if Schliemann would help him. As it states in the article, “Calvert believed that ancient Troy was founded at this site. He did not have the funds to dig or discover for himself. Schliemann agreed
This is true. But the passage states, “Most mistakes do not lead directly to discoveries” (“In Praise of Careful Science”). This is not true. With every mistake someone makes they are making at least one discovery that is not to do that again because it doesn’t work. If there is a mistake that does not make you learn that, then it is most likely not a mistake. In Lost Cities, Lost Treasure, Schliemann may be greedy and dishonest but he discovered at least two things when he ruined that site. One, that finding Troy that way wasn’t going to work. Two, that the Troy the Greek poet Homer described was somewhere else and that it actually existed. In How a Melted Bar of Chocolate Changed Our Kitchens, Percy made the mistake of having a chocolate bar in his pocket when he was standing next to the Magnetron and he learned at least two things. One, don’t stand next to the Magnetron with a chocolate bar in your pocket. Two, that you can make food like that. Whether the discovery was small or large with every mistake you learn