Trinity College Dublin
Trinity College: Pierre Simon Laplace (1749 1827)
The events of the life of Pierre Laplace are presented in a timeline form. The biographical information is taken from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics" by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908).
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Laplace Limit
This page gives a brief explanation of the Laplace limit, the value of "e" "for which Laplace's formula for solving Kepler's equation begins diverging."