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This essay focuses on a digital text analysis with  AntConc  computational linguistics tool in order to find, list and compare the most important  key word  occurrences and their collocations in some of Christiaan Huygens last writings, from 1686 to 1695 and posthumous. The greatest attention is  payed  to three  key words  –  Animus ,  Potentia  and  Lex  – related to the themes of  God’s power, divine and human intelligence, probabilistic epistemology, natural theology and  plurality  of worlds.  In addition, these  key words  are used to select the letters written by Huygens to the most important of his contemporaries on the same topics. This challenge firstly involves demonstrating that his last writings on philosophical and theological reflections on mechanistic philosophy are not an anomaly within Huygens’ wider work, and secondly showing that these are indications of Huygens’ involvement in a number of theoretical debates in the second half of the seventeenth century.

Language as Scientific Instrument: a Preliminary Digital Analysis of Christiaan Huygens' Last Writings and Correspondence