"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Optical microscopy and optical crystallography. 1. Introduction to optical microscope and image formation -- 1.1. Introduction to light microscopy : the need for a microscope -- 1.2. Historical tour of light microscopy -- 1.3. Image formation in a microscope and resolution -- 1.4. Polarized light microscopypart II…