By definition, Microscopy is research using microscopes.
Therefore we should become familiar with the names of the microscope
parts,
or at lest, we should know the difference between an objective lense
and an ocular lense.
I only use light microscopes, because electron microscopes and X-ray
microscopes are too expensive and not needed for the things I look
at.
Here is a good image of a light microscope with the names of their
parts:

I do not have a microscopes used to look at 3 dimensional objects,
because must of the time I look at samples of my blood, my sputum,
or some cultured pathogen or microbe.
In the World Wide Web (a.k.a Internet) you can find a lot of data
about microscopy.
There is a free, and very good, microscopy magazine from Austria
called "Microbe Hunter"
Here is a link to it:
https://www.microbehunter.com/
And you can download back issues from here:
https://www.microbehunter.com/category/magazines/
And Wikipedia has a good description of Microscopy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscopy
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