Do you know why pirates wore eye patches?
The logic could sometimes backfire. I do not know if you also think so, but some strange universal force (logical alias) always made me believe that the reason that a pirate wore a eye patch was precisely because of their lack of vision or any other problems that prevented him normally see.
If you're with me on this team, you have to know that we are completely wrong. According to the site Mental Floss , the main reason I turned to accessory pirates was to improve vision , especially changes inside and outside of the ship.
Jim Sheedy, specialist and director of the Vision Performance Institute at Pacific University in Oregon, in the U.S., the doctor explained Wall Street Journal that our eyes adapt quickly when transitioning from a dark room to a light spot occurs. However, the reverse process can take up to 25 minutes, because the eyes need to regenerate photopigments .
And as the pirates were constantly moving around the ship alternating between the outside - with direct sunlight - and inside - it was almost complete darkness - the patch was used to keep an eye always adapted to dark environments . When a pirate had to go to the inside of the ship, enough to change the side of the eye patch so he could see much more easily.
Despite there being no pirate story to tell us if that was the real purpose of the patches, the fact that the adaptation of one eye to darkness is a process that works. A lack of historical sources, the special edition of Pirates of the program MythBusters considered this explanation plausible.
In addition, at least a manual for military pilots notes that " even if the light hits affect one eye, the other will keep its dark adaptation if protected from light. This information is useful because the pilot can preserve dark adaptation in one eye with just close it . "
To reinforce the idea, including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States recommends that " the pilot should close one eye when exposed to light to preserve night vision to some extent . " If all these arguments do not convince you, it remains to be tested.
If you're with me on this team, you have to know that we are completely wrong. According to the site Mental Floss , the main reason I turned to accessory pirates was to improve vision , especially changes inside and outside of the ship.
The explanation.
Jim Sheedy, specialist and director of the Vision Performance Institute at Pacific University in Oregon, in the U.S., the doctor explained Wall Street Journal that our eyes adapt quickly when transitioning from a dark room to a light spot occurs. However, the reverse process can take up to 25 minutes, because the eyes need to regenerate photopigments .
And as the pirates were constantly moving around the ship alternating between the outside - with direct sunlight - and inside - it was almost complete darkness - the patch was used to keep an eye always adapted to dark environments . When a pirate had to go to the inside of the ship, enough to change the side of the eye patch so he could see much more easily.
And does it work?
Despite there being no pirate story to tell us if that was the real purpose of the patches, the fact that the adaptation of one eye to darkness is a process that works. A lack of historical sources, the special edition of Pirates of the program MythBusters considered this explanation plausible.
In addition, at least a manual for military pilots notes that " even if the light hits affect one eye, the other will keep its dark adaptation if protected from light. This information is useful because the pilot can preserve dark adaptation in one eye with just close it . "
To reinforce the idea, including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States recommends that " the pilot should close one eye when exposed to light to preserve night vision to some extent . " If all these arguments do not convince you, it remains to be tested.
