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The amount of misconceptions about pirates and eyepatches has facilitated the need for an entire video dedicated to exploring the subject. I will talk about eye injuries, patches, our cultural association of pirates and eyepatches, and finally, about the possibility of pirates using eyepatches to enhance their vision in the darkness.

Period sources
The Pirate's Own Book - Charles Ellms(normally I'd consider this a secondary source or modern source, since it discusses Golden Age Piracy 100 years after it ended, but in the case of this video I used it to describe events taking place 11 years before the book's publishing)
The Buccaneers of America - Alexandre Exquemelin
A Naval Dictionary of the Maritime - William Falconer

Modern sources
https://benersonlittle.com/2017/07/19...
The Golden Age of Piracy - Benerson Little
Under the Black Flag - David Cordingly
Piratical Schemes and Contracts - E.T Fox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyepatch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBus...

Fictional sources
These are cited to explain our cultural perception of pirates and eyepatches.
The Odyssey - Homer
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners - Charles Dickens
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini

Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:02 Eye injuries
5:29 Patches, alternatives, and their use
6:57 Pirates and eyepatches
11:37 Night vision?
23:54 Summary

#pirates #history #eyepatches #eyepatch